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3. MESEUSANDALUM COMPRESSISCAPUS new species. 
Female :—Length, 3.10 mm. including ovipositor. 
Differs from cyaneiventris in being somewhat smaller, the ovipositor extruded somewhat 
less (the stylus as long as it in both species), the scape is distinctly compressed (uniformly 
expanded ventrad its entire length, the expansion straight, not convex); the ring-joint is wider, 
the flagellum more slender, the club less differentiated, the pedicel somewhat shorter; the post- 
marginal vein is somewhat longer, the venation very pale, the scutellum a little more finely lined 
longitudinally. Hind tibial spur single. 
Described from one female. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 2896, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with type 
cyaneiventris and an antenna and hind tibia on a slide with an antenna of a female cyaneiventris. 
This genus is perhaps Lusandalum but the exceptional antenne are not mentioned in 
the various descriptions of that genus and it is not the business of systematic biology to guess. 
Genus SOLINDINELLEUS Girault. 
Head normal, from cephalic aspect rounded, the genal sulcus distinct, the eyes rounded 
and bearing short, scattered, inconspicuous hairs; the antenne inserted slightly below ventral 
ends of eyes, their scrobes short but distinct. Antenne 10-jointed, subclavate, one ring-joint, 
the scape short, the pedicel small, not half the size of the first funicle joint which is longest of 
the funicle; club 2-jointed, ovate. Lateral ocelli not touching the eye margins. Scutellum 
very short, triangular, simple but with a median suleus, the axille very small, very widely 
separated, obscure. Abdomen sessile, so much compressed as to be merely a line from dorsal 
aspect, as long as the thorax, the ovipositor not exserted. Scutum impressed, the furrows 
complete. Middle tibial spur long and stout, two thirds the length of the middle tarsus, the 
proximal joint of the latter ventrad with dense black teeth; these teeth are also on succeeding 
joints and.around the base of the tibial spur but less dense. Cephalic femur lightly swollen, 
unarmed but with a line of solitary, stiff hairs. Hind legs normal, the spur single. Wings 
hyaline, the postmarginal vein long, subequal to the marginal and four or more times longer 
than the stigmal which is well developed. Marginal fringes short. Body metallic, sculptured, 
varicolored. Corrected description. 
Like Neanastatus excluding the shape of the abdomen. 
1. SOLINDINELLEUS PULCHRICORPUS Girault. Female. Genotype. 
Length, 2.79 mm. Dark metallic greenish, the long scutal impression and the seutellum 
distad coppery. Marked with bright lemon yellow as follows: The head except center of vertex 
between the lateral ocelli and a broad stripe from side to side (eye to eye) of the occiput; 
the legs except proximal half of caudal cox, proximal two thirds of caudal femora, all of 
caudal tibiz (except at each end), the dusky distal tarsal joint and the tip of the middle tibial 
spur; proximal third of tegule; and a whitish band around most of the caudal margin of 
pronotum (dorsal aspect). An orange yellow, transverse-elliptical spot on propodeum, each 
side of meson, as seen from dorsal aspect just on each side of the apex of scutellum. The 
latter bears a thin clump of long white hairs on each side before apex. Antenne brownish, the 
scape yellow ventrad, the pedicel the same at tip. Head and seutum with irregular, more or 
less obscure punctures, the mesonotum densely shagreened or reticulated. Venation dusky. 
A more or less obscure yellowish stripe near base of abdomen, lateral aspect. The species 
resembles Neanastatus maxzimicorpus. There is also a rather large, triangular lemon yellow 
spot just cephalad of mesopleurum. Type re-examined. 
Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Associated with galls. July. 
Type: No. Hy 2897, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag. 
